Rotating disk automatic lotto game



April 22, 1952 w. A. HANF ROTATING DISK AUTOMATIC LOTTO GAME Filed April 25. 1947 FIGJ gwuQ/Yvtom WESLEY A. HANF Patented Apr. 22, 1952 UNITED sr-Ares PArENroFFLcE;

2 Claims This invention relates to game apparatus and j is particularly adapted for playing the game of Lotto, sometimes known as Bingo.

It is an object of the invention to provide game apparatus wherein a plurality of numbers are selected by chance with asuitable mechanism and wherein a simulated lotto card is soassociated with the numbers selected by chance that the chance selected numbers and their positions relative to various positions on the simulated, card are properly indicated.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for use with mechanical chance selection, entirely apparatus whereby the player can, through mechanical means, play a game of Lotto without the assistance of any other person.

The above and other objects and advantages of my invention will be more apparent from the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein like referenee characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, and, in which:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through an embodiment of the invention;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the movable number carrying elements;

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary front elevational view of the windowed element simulating a lotto card; and

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 with numbers on the elements shown in Figure 2 showing through the windows of the card.

In Figure 1 there is a casing indicated in its entirety by the numeral 18. Within the casing H3 is a generally U-shaped support II which carries a shaft l 2 upon which several reels l3, l4 and 55 are mounted for rotation independently of each other. It is intended that the reels l3, l4 and !5 be actuated by chance controlled mechanism such as that manufactured by Mills Industries of Chicago, Illinois, formerly known as Mills Novelty Company, one such mechanism being disclosed in U. S. Patent Number 1,586,455, May 25, 1926. This mechanism, upon actuation of a suitable operating handle will cause the reels l3, l4 and to rotate and further to be stopped at different relative positions on each succeeding play.

The reels l3, and it each have a pair of rows of numerals about them and the reel 15 has a single row of numerals about it as clearly shown in Figure 2. The numerals may be applied to the reels in any suitable manner, In the embodiment of the invention shown and for playing the game of Lotto the numerals run from 1 through 5.

The casing iii has a slanted front portion IS with a plate I? suitably mounted therein, said plate having opaque portions I8 indicated by stippling in Figures 3 and 4. The plate It constitutes a shield which lies infront of portions of the reels or rotary elements I3,- I4 andll5."

The shield I! is provided with windowed areas :9 and as shown in Figures 3 and 4 eachofsaid 1 windowed areas l9 is identified by a numeral from 1 through 5.- The upper horizontal row of windowed areas I9 "is identified by the numeral 1- overeach of said windowed areas. The second horizontal row has each window identified by the numeral -2 -and so on, the lower horizontal rowhaving each of its windows identified by the nu:

meral 5.

In play, it is the object of the operator of the game device to rotate the reels-l3, M-and -l5-in an attempt to secure the positioning of numerals windows are blank so thelSlor right hand window in the upper-horizontal rowhasexposed the reel. numeral 5; Thislis not; a winning combination.. in that row since itwouldbe necessary .-to have.- reelnumerals 1 exposedthrough all five of..-'the.:

windows, l9 in the .upper horizontal row=of=wina dows.

Each of the windows in the central horizontal row is numbered 3 and it will be seen that each of said windows has exposed a numeral 3 which appears on the reels I3, l4 and I5. It happens that the central horizontal row as well as the central vertical row of windows contains only 4 such windows, the middle Window of each of said horizontal and vertical rows being eliminated and the word free being placed upon the opaque portion l 8 of the shield 11.

In view of the fact that the central horizontal row of windows whichare numbered 3, also expose numerals 3 on the reels, such an arrangement of numbers would constitute a winner.

To have a winner in one of the vertical rows it would be necessary for each window in the row to expose a corresponding reel numeral and in that case the winning combination would be numerals 1 through 5. Similar winners can be made by having the proper corresponding numerals appear in the windows numbered 1, 2, 4 and 5 from the upper left to the lower right hand corner and from the upper right to the lower left hand corner since the center number 3 is a free number. In other words, when the numbers 1 of reel l3 appear beneath the window numbered 1 opposite that reel, and when the numbers 2 of reel 14 simultaneously appear beneath th windows numbered 2 opposite that reel, and when the numbers 4 of reel l4 simultaneously appear by another player or the operator of the game.

This permits unattended machines to be placed at advantageous points so that individuals may play a game which ordinarily is played by a gathering of a number of people under the supervision of a person who draws and calls the @011:

trol numbers.

The structure can be readily incorporated in chance controlled devices such as the one above identified and the arrangement of the numbers on the reels can be varied from time to time,

It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made in the form, details, arrangement and proportions of the various parts without departing from the scope of my invention.

What I claim is: V

1. A game apparatus for use with a chance controlled operating mechainsm, whereby the mechanism can be used for playing the game of Lotto which includes a plurality of rotaryelements at least some of which have different numerals disposed in pairs in rows about their edges, a shield about said rotary elements, said shield having a plurality of windows therein, said win-v dows being arranged in vertical rows aligned with the rows of numerals on said rotary elements, said windows also being arranged .in horizontal rows of a number corresponding to the quantity of different numerical denominations on said movable elements, all of the windows of each row in one direction being identified by a common numeral corresponding to a numeral in each of said rows 4 on said movable elements and difierent from the numerals identifying all the windows in a row of each of the other rows of windows.

2. Game apparatussfor use with a chance-controlled operating mechanism whereby the mechanism can be used for playing the game of Lotto, comprising a casing having front and rear walls and including an angularly disposed portion in the front wall, a substantially U-shaped support within the casing and mounted upon the bottom thereof, a plurality of revoluble reels co-axially mounted on a horizontal axis from said support with the .peripheries thereof arranged substantially tangential to said angularly disposed pore tion, said reels each having a series of different numerals circumferentially spaced thereon in Y rows, said angularly disposed portion of the front wall constituting a shield and being provided with a plurality of windows therein, said windows being arranged in rows aligned with the rows of numerals on said reels, said windows also being arranged in horizontal rows of a number corresponding to the quantity of different numerical denominations on said reels, all of the windows of each row in one direction being identified by a common numeral corresponding to a numeral in each of said rows on said reels and different from the numerals identifying all the windows in a row of each of the other rows of windows.

WESLEY A. HANF.

REFERENCESCITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 451,956 Sanderson May 12, 1891 1,151,668 Davis Aug. 31, 1915 1,586,455 Mills May 25, 1926 2,039,969 McIntosh W May 5, 1936 2,190,845 Nitzberg Feb. 20, 1940 2,219,154 Wahlberg Oct. 22, 1940 

